A week or so ago, I was contacted by a reported from the Pittsburgh City Paper to talk about fixed gear riding here in the ‘burgh (the paper was running a series of articles about bicycles to coordinate with Bike Pittsburgh‘s Bike-Fest). She asked the usual round of questions (“Why do you do this? Do you have other bikes? What’s it like riding in traffic?”) and I did my best to get across my rather odd reasons for riding a fixed gear bike year ’round. Several times during the interview, I was asked if riding a fixed gear was “punk rock.” I responded, well, maybe, but I’m not, as a happily married father of one who owns a house, really punk. I guess I do see riding a fixed gear as a subversive activity (heck, just commuting on a bike these days is kinda subversive), but I thought perhaps a weekly entertainment rag wasn’t the place to wax philosophic about such things.

Anyway…the article isn’t available online yet (the site is updated on Thursdays), but perhaps I’ll post the link in a fit of self-promotion when it becomes available.

Posted on 22 June 2005